Olivia's English Literati

Ode to the underappreciated...

And by that I mean pencils.  

I chose to write an ode to pencils because as we start using computers more, we start using pencils less. Even when we do use pencils, we would much rather have a cool quill, or a multicolored pen, and the pencil goes unloved. I'm really proud of this ode because I came up with this structure all on my own, and I managed to follow it all the way to the end. Although I revised this poem several times, I still wonder whether there could be a way I could make the order of my statements about pencils flow better, so it feels less like random sentences and more like a smooth poem. However I feel like with odes this sometimes happen s because you are trying to say ALL that is good about the chosen thing. This poem is in my literati because I'm proud of the way I made it work without doing something like putting "o" before every line, but making there be a structure with mini stanzas that start with "pencils" and "if". Enjoy!